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- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This ***** is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S
cripes I had to, it was killing me inside not to say it. - ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"The thing about collecting money is that it's still only worth the denomination printed or minted on it. Paying 20 grand for a $20 bill is stupid."
No, it's worth whatever someone else will pay for it. That is how a free market works. Although this probably slides in under the "Greater Fool" theory ; -) - alpha-male, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I saw a special on counterfeit bills and the FBI on the History channel. They keep all counterfeit bills so they can act as a database for comparing questionable bills. The hardest note to identify is a so called Super Note, which they believe is being printed on the same Swedish made printing presses as real US currency. These presses are so expensive that they feel that a foreign nation's government is producing them. What foreign county grows and ships Del Monte bananas? Just a thought.
- MonstersAGoGo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That Del Monte advertising guy is a genius.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I bet some worker at the mint in DC was eating his daily banana and his friend came and shoved him and he accidentally stuck the sticker on the printing paper. "Hey thanks jackass...I wonder if anyone will notice this ***** BANANA STICKER ON THEIR MONEY!!!" What's amazing is that they have a strict process for weeding out jacked up money and if the print is off even a little the money is torched. How this got through is what makes it $20,000.
- netwookiee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is lame. What WOULD be cool is to find a banana with a $20 bill printed on it.
- Virtuoso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All you guys who are wondering why you would pay that much for a 20 dollar bill its because its some peoples hobby. Some people like playing warhammer and will pay 30 bucks for a 30cent piece of risen. Some people like collecting trading cards an will easily pay up to 4000 dollars for a piece of cardboard. Its just a hobby and if people want to pay that much for it then so be it.
And to answer the other remark... I'm going to buy a banana and put a stamp on a 20 then color in the rest how would people know? thats stupid. People will know there are people who study bills their entire life they will figure out whether or not you used the right ink... brush length... they could tell whats under the sticker without removing it. Whatever. I think it is a really cool story... obviously the sticker was placed intentially.
Heres a good idea... get a job at the treasury put your own little *fault* on a bill make sure it gets in circulation and sell it :) that sounds to me like more sense. - fitzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did you guys look at the picture? The serial number and the seal of the $20 is on the sticker....
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"is it still official US currency now that it has been stamped with the seal of Ecuador? "
Hahaha! A banana sticker is hardly the "Seal of Ecuador"!
And for all you people who don't think it should be worth more than $20, you're pretty dense... Paintings are worth a hell of a lot more than the price of the canvas. - TheTraveller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0people have way too much money if they pay 20k for this nonsense.
- bigfuzzyjesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Collecting cars is cool, you have a car you can drive it, you collect a 20 dollar bill you have a piece of paper worth 20 friggin dollars. Money collectors are morons.
- Sippi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have a buddy that got his hands on a misprinted dollar bill that only made it through one only one color run on the printing press. The dollar bill was completely white on the back and had just the face value printed on the front. He ended up selling it for $2500 to some collector. Bet he wishes he saw this before he let his go.
- theundone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"i think the number code on that del monte sticker is for a banana"
Hence the headline :-) - JaggedEdge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If i worked for the treasury i would be slapping all sorts of stickers on bills and makin profit. :P
- mattconn24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Who in there right mind would pay up to 1500x of what it is worth for this bill. I mean it is 20 dallors....
- scrapstyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Flaws on dollar bills are rare as they are destroyed when discovered. If a flawed bill escapes destruction, a collector would be eager to own this rare flawed bill. Sames goes to coins and stamps as well.
Maybe one of your quarters could be worth hundreds of dollars
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6936362/ - pgm_01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes we have no Bananas
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bananas.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think my brain is fried from reading the CES coverage at engadget. All I can handle is a story about a banana and what time do movies really start...it's too hard to just say...hmm 15 minutes after they say it does.
- lampy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The thing about collecting money is that it's still only worth the denomination printed or minted on it. Paying 20 grand for a $20 bill is stupid."
"Obviously that $20 note is worth more than $20 for the guy who sold it for 20Gs."
And obviously the guy who bought it for 20Gs it's worth more than 20Gs because he's going to hold onto it and sell it years later for an even higher value. A Willie Mays rookie card should be worth $.05 the cardboard is on, but it isn't because there is a demand for it. The same can be said for anything ever collected. - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looking at the picture, it's no accident that it ended up on there. That's too perfectly placed on there, no ruffled edges etc.
- Canuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The thing about collecting money is that it's still only worth the denomination printed or minted on it. Paying 20 grand for a $20 bill is stupid."
Obviously that $20 note is worth more than $20 for the guy who sold it for 20Gs. - shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love this story. That's banannas!
- phildo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2* insert lame-o bananas/Gwen Stefani joke here *
- Stopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm gonna go buy some banannas stick the stickers on a bunch of 20's and just draw in the seal and serial numbers over the sticker.
How would anyone know if thats not what happened here. - boreddusty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"This is lame. What WOULD be cool is to find a banana with a $20 bill printed on it."
definitely. - cneil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0where's the picture?
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0On the site, it's right there, you can't miss it
- sTiVo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"This currency appeals to collectors?"
Definitely. Items like this are EXTREMELY rare and EXTREMELY collectible. - DisgruntledDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I'm gonna go buy some banannas stick the stickers on a bunch of 20's and just draw in the seal and serial numbers over the sticker.
How would anyone know if thats not what happened here."
In an amazing feat of physics and science, they LOOKED UNDER THE STICKER!
Wow....... - Mortonje, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That's teh funney.
- idiggit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In other news...
A 20$ bill as been found sticked to a banana in a local fruit store. The happy purchaser, who bought the fruit for 19ยข/pd is now asking 1500x the price. He's asking bidders to make it quick before the banana get wasted. - Wabem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the Spelling bee. Digging it... I just wish I had foudnd it.
- deesnutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I got a $5 bill with a happy face drawn on it. I'm selling it for $5,000. I think they used a sharpie when drawing it. I really can't be sure. But it would be a great addition to any collector's stash. Act now before it's too late (and I buy my lunch with it).
It must be a slow tech news day. - iWorks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This currency appeals to collectors?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The question I have is ... is it still official US currency now that it has been stamped with the seal of Ecuador?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/news/archive/2006/01/05/national/a135924S96.DTL&o=0&type=bondage - JanesDaddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Prolly a Bureau of Engraving and Printing employee was a bit peckish.
For conventionally grown fruit, (grown with chemicals inputs), the PLU code on the sticker consists of four numbers. Organically grown fruit has a five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 9. Genetically engineered (GM) fruit has a five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 8. For example,
A conventionally grown banana would be: 4011
An organic banana would be: 94011
A genetically engineered (GE or GMO) banana would be: 84011
The numeric system was developed by the Produce Electronic Identification Board, an affiliate of the Produce Marketing Association, a Newark, Delaware-based trade group for the produce industry. As of October 2001, the board had assigned more than 1,200 PLUs for individual produce items. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0hey i found a del monte sticker on a APPLE i would pay x1000 time it vaule (if you did not get it i am joking)
- cheifchuck0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0***** it, I am going to do it too.
The ***** is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s! - yensed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Dude. Now i know why when i was younger all the kids would call me stupid! Paying $6.50 for a $5 bill is actually not a smart thing! :-p
- bramkok, on 07/02/2009, -1/+0WGAF!!?!??!?!
- Digital.Totem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The thing about collecting money is that it's still only worth the denomination printed or minted on it. Paying 20 grand for a $20 bill is stupid.
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So the QA guy blinked! Big deal!
- stenspect, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0this has been said: "that is so bananas!" argh, argh, argh. I am sure someone will flame me for this lame as comment, but i just had to.
- turbopro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0be original with your headline
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0fake. clever fake, but still fake.
- MrMysterious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Dude, I could so make that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i really dont like bananas
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Who cares?
- vaporboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0i think the number code on that del monte sticker is for a banana
- MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0ultimate gayness.
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